Mobile Apps in Healthcare Technologies

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Mobile Apps – in the Development of Healthcare Technologies Medilink (Yorkshire & Humber) October 06 2011 Designit – Jim Dawton, Partner, – London office Designit – Mikal Hallstrup, Chief Visionary Officer – Copenhagen office

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Agenda 09:00 – Share expectations and app thoughts so far (15 min) 09:15 – Interactive inspiration session. Slides & debate (45 min) 10:00 – Break (15 min) 10:15 – Workshop – heads on, hands on! (45 min) 11:00 – Presenting back (20 min) 11:20 – Wrapping up (10 min) 11:30 – Adjourn

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Scope – give you yellow belt in ‘app creation’ Your take away – get informed, get inspired, get ignited...

Get more app-savvy, a bit more user-driven Understand your own ‘apportunities’ No ‘5-star app’ ready for app store or Android market, ok?

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

About Designit Born 1991, in Denmark, raised internationally 9 ofďŹ ces, 200+ Designits, 25+ nationalities Creative zoo – designers, human factor, digital factor and business strategists Magic mix, that creates business value and sublime mobile experiences

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

What we do...

We help you understand your users, customers, and markets better; rethink and discover opportunities and translate them into meaningful products and services.

Our approach is strategic-creative and design driven.

We work cross-silo, cross-media and cross-touchpoints.

We believe that user value creates business value.

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

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Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Approach and success factors in app creation Responsibility Feasibility

Must be a win-win and develop sustainable user relations

Must be realistic in a technical perspective

Desireability

Business

App must deliver real user value

Must be based on a viable business model

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Some of our clients...

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

One of our healthcare apps...

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Some other work in progress...

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Current app projects in other industries... ‣

Pharma – mobile user manuals and user training

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Energy – energy monitoring and management

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Water management – Installation and configuration of pumps

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Insurance – claim procedure management – or is that really CRM?

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Telco – home entertainment, home control app

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Finance – open source, shared app platform for small banks

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Automotive – staff training tools, sales support and customer relations

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Humanitarian – donation and collection app

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Mid-wifery – digital transformation of mid-wifery practices

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So, what do these apps have in common? ‣

Supportive – they add user value to existing offerings

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Self-service – they engage users in new, meaningful roles

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Time-saving – they save users’ time or staff time

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Anytimeness, anywhereness – they turn dead time into do time

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Core functionality – they deliver bite-size services for mobile use

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Increase interaction volume – they increase user interaction and dialogue

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Information experience – they are visually delightful

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Context aware – they know where you are and what you’ll do next

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Instruction free – they’re download and do and delivering instant value

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What’s happening A quick glance at the big picture to see why the future is mobile‌

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Danish Chamber of Commerce Survey 2011 – mobile-social trends in the Danish service sector ‣

General increase in the use of mobile services

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More than half of all businesses have adopted social media for knowledge sharing, recruitment, marketing or support

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Seven out of ten businesses expect to advance the use of apps and online tools within the next couple of years

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Our experience, so far... ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣

We experience the same trend on a European level All our clients are expanding their businesses by going mobile Looking back, extremely fast B2C adoption from 2008 Now, followed by fast BtB adoption in 2010-2011 2008 was the ‘must have an app’ gimmicky era 2011, a matured, pragmatic approach – business value driven

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Once upon a time, a phone was a phone and daddy was a young man with blond, curly hair...

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

1973, a decade later, the start of the mobile service revolution...

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

A value shift‌ Nokia focused on 1000 devices and 1 service‌

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Apple did the opposite‌ Had 1 device, 1000 mobile services, emphasising that value had migrated from product to service‌

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The Mobile services perspective In 2008, the ďŹ rst, fun apps opened our eyes and made us fundamentally reinvent value propositions, user relations and mobile opportunities‌

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

iPint...

Having a pint, straight from the mobile‌

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Shazam The magic of discovering and buying new music, straight from the cloud‌

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Mosquito repellent straight from the loudspeaker of your feature phone‌

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Even the inventor of the world’s heaviest remote, Bang & Olufsen, needed to rethink the relation between product and service

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Touch-kids, the next generation of touch screen consumers will amplify the big shift to mobile services ...

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Touch-kids, a DIY generation increasingly preferring self service, like e.g. self-checkout and appointment management in Danish afterschool care

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2010, always ON and mobile tasking has become the new normal...

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

2011, mobile me, tireless service snacking, anywhere, anytime, in any opportune moment or place‌

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New mobile retail-experiences Tesco HomePlus, turning waste time into shopping time‌

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

How mobile is your business?

2 Mobile services as an expander

1 0 No mobile services No focus on mobile services – it’s not relevant for our business…

Mobile services as a gimmick Mobile services as marketing – an app is a me too, must have. You never know if it’s the next big thing. Let’s check it out…

Mobile services with valuable functionality – mobile services add value to our existing core services or help us scale them out…

3 Mobile services is core business Mobile first! Mobile services is the business strategy and considered the key platform for customer relations and value creation.

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Inventing new mobile services takes new inspiration.

Here are some examples‌

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Real life, real users Their needs, their frustrations, is a massive and free source of inspiration and unserved needs

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Extreme users and their surprising behaviour is also a great source of inspiration to make us rethink our offerings in the mobile age‌

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Professional users are key to understand other important needs and opportunities than just end-user needs‌

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

App store inspiration Right from the marketplace, tons of apps, and tons of inspiration from parallel industries‌

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

or free inspiration services like springwise.com A daily ďŹ x of entrepreneurial ideas for all industries‌

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Inspiration from early movers Maybe an app is not the answer but rather a mobile site...

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

How might you apply technology to introduce simple, yet high value bite-size services‌

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

or create disruptive mobile service systems like myTaxi, cutting away the middle man, turning the taxi booking industry into a customerdriven, social network service

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

...or even introduce strategic mobile standards that could transform your industry‌

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How might existing customer data help create new mobile services?

Share back of customer data in the shape of new information experiences can engage and intensify customer relations

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

How might you create on-line communities like mystarbucksidea.com and let customer interact directly around your brand?

Starbucks steps back, listens to the conversation – and gets great innovative ideas and customer insights in return‌

The Next Within...

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

How might we translate it into healthcare? Like patientslikeme.com, a data-driven social networking health site? Members share experiences with trusted peers and learn from realworld outcomes

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

HealthUnlocked Patient-reported outcomes made easy

The Next Within...

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Is YouTube becoming a future healthcare authority?

Increasingly used for ďŹ nding user-friendly user instructions and advice from trusted peers

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New information experiences 30 sec MBA – big knowledge made bitesize for a mobile context of use

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

How might your app tap into the power of social media analytics?

With inspiration from klout.com who measures user inuence in social networks

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

How might you expand your business with mobile services?

Look to BMW/ Sixt DriveNow. A mobility service at 29¢ a minute?

Parking and fuel included.

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Mobile services aren’t new-new anymore but still business as unusual To succeed, takes a rethink mindset‌

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Classic problem solving mindset Is that you?

Problem

Solution

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Rethink mindset

Explore Discover Re-understand

Problem

Rethink problems to create new solutions

Create Conceptualise Document

Solution

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Rethink? Like brightfeet™?

Lighted slippers that let you see in the dark?

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Your choice‌ Prolong the past Or make change?

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Some good advice when going mobile‌

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Understand users first!

Don’t invent great apps for needs that don’t exist…

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Great apps are context aware How might e.g. location awareness, user recognition deliver better user value?

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Get social or get left behind Don’t underestimate the power of social networks

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Less crap in the app Don’t jam in everything!

Remember, it’s the mobile context.

Be proud of the stuff you don’t jam in.

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Workshop!

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Remember… ‣

Think out of the box – share ideas, combine them and accellerate each other! ‣ 1 conversation at a time ‣ Think, write, share – 1 idea per stickie ‣ Stuck? No ideas? Use Jim or me as a hot-line! ‣ By the way, we value by the amount of stickies, not the amount of talk!

Get going!

See you in 50 minutes with full templates!

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Oh, don’t be shy!

Remember, all great ideas are born small and ugly:)

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Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Mobile Apps in the Development of Healthcare Technologies

Thanks for a great ‘quickshop’.

Want to talk? Grab us… jim.dawton@designit.com +44 7843 216225 (London) mikal.hallstrup@designit.com +45 2844 7120 (Copenhagen)